Skirt with a safety pin

Usage examples of kilt.

Behind her back, the tincture-squaddies dotted across the billard table attempted to look as much like inanimate tin soldiers as possible, considering they were all dressed in kilts.

Over kilts and loose shirts, all wore knee-long mail hauberks, belted at the hips with thick leather bands sporting huge buckles of brass or polished steel from which depended a sword of some descriptioneverything from native short swords and brass-hilted boarding cutlasses to European and Middle Eastern military brandsat least one each of dirk and dagger and one or more pistols, metal flasks of powder and cour bouilli boxes for lead balls and spanners.

Prudence rose from the pool, donned her kilt and mantle with trembling hands, took up her calabash, and disappeared into the bush.

But as she hesitated, Emo hiked up his kilt, reached into his sling, and directed a stream of urine practically at her feet.

In his left hand he held a short spear, the blade of which seemed to be fashioned of chipped flint, or some other hard and shining stone, and in the girdle of his kilt was thrust a wooden-handled instrument or ax, made by setting a great, sharp-edged stone that must have weighed two pounds or so into the cleft end of the handle which was lashed with sinews both above and below the axhead.

There were servants in the room too, young men and women in tunics and tabards of gorgeous watered silks, or in fantastic uniforms of red leather kilts, golden cuirasses inlaid with intricate designs of black mother-of-pearl and plumed helmets that almost doubled their height, armed with ornately decorated gisarmes, pole-axes and sarissas which they held grounded before them.

The boy was dressed in kilts, with the Campbell plaid flung over his shoulder and a spray of evergreen pine nodding gayly from his Glengarry bonnet.

The smooth linen of his shirtfront was cool against the heated glow of my greased breasts, and while the wool of his kilt was much scratchier against my naked thighs and belly, the sensation was by no means unpleasant.

His heavily muscled body wore his dented mailed shirt, the leather hacqueton beneath it, his fur kilt and the fur-flapped war-boots on his feet.

A caped coat, fastened to the throat, hung over the short kilt skirt, and rough gaiters buttoned down over a wonderful little pair of hobnailed boots.

Leaning out of this aperture was an old woman, who was listening with interest to the conversation between Tabaea and the kilted man.

She knew she had stabbed the kilted drunk in his left leg, so the connection was obvious.

Everyone else in her throne room had white hair, the only exception being a similarly youthful kilted Arum, who was chained to a marble column at one side of the dais.

Rheud, the kilted, red-bearded armorer asked when they all trooped in through the door to his arms room.

Althalus showed the kilted Arum Chief the dining hall and the bedrooms.